Topic: Omar Sharif

Some may have hoped for better for Moammar Khadafy - or at least a slight sign of the nobility that he always claimed but never actually showed...

How Omar Sharif Jr. Met Kirk Douglas

Omar Sharif Jr. with his famous grandfather When 94-year-old Kirk Douglas held the stage at Sunday night's Academy Award telecast - kibitzing...

Omar Sharif

Academy Award nominated Egyptian actor Omar Sharif had his breakthrough international role in Lawrence of Arabia . In July 2003 he head-butted a police officer in a French casino, and in 2005 he punched a Beverly Hills parking attendant who refused to accept ...
The United Nations attempts to curb the international heroin trade through a sting operation masterminded by its drugs czar (Brynner) and an innovative policy analyst (Sharif). Based upon a shortstory by Ian Fleming and supported by the United Nations this anti-drug epic ...

Prince faces life term for murder

A Saudi prince is due to be sentenced for beating and strangling his servant to death in the culmination of a campaign of " Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud was found guilty of murdering Bandar Abdulaziz in a "brutal" assault at their ...
It's been widely acknowledged that the John Williams score for the Steven Spielberg film Jaws was a big contributor to the success of the movie. On a Summer morning, Brody is called to the beach, where the mangled body of Summer ...
What would you do if you had a one of kind villa built for you? Would you look after it, or would you risk it in a game of cards and let it slip through your hands? That is what Omar Sharif ...

Saudi Arabia Running out of Sand?

This is something that would make Lawrence of Arabia turn in his grave: Recent studies are now showing that sand, once Saudi Arabia's most common commodity (outside of oil) is now becoming almost as scarce as water. For those who are ...

The city reborn

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star," by Paul Theroux is presented. In travelling the entire length of the country, introducing myself as an Ameri- can (because it was usual for Vietnamese to ask), no one ever said, "Look what you did to ...

Future, past useless at my age, says actor Sharif

VENICE (Reuters) - For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless. "I think that thinking about the future is something for young people, and thinking about the past is useless when you are old," Sharif told reporters in Venice, where his ...